FLIGHTS ROUND WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 7

FLIGHTS ROUND WORLD.

AMERICANS IN JAPAN.

fMAVERSING THE KURSLES. UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER. Br Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. * (Received 11.55 p.m.) A. and N.Z.—Reuter. r NEW YORK, May 18. :?' A" message from paramushiru Island, of the , Kuriles Group, states that the three United States air cruisers engaged in the round the world flight left there on Monday morning : for Yetorup Island. The latter is one of the Kuriles, some 300 miles south of Paramushiru. ; ■;.■■ ■ A Tokio message states that the flight from Attn, now stated to be 988 miles, took 12 hours 10 minutes. En route the airmen were forced down for six hours by strong • winds, and a heavy and impenetrable snowstorm.; They had to wait off the shores of Kolo- L ski, Bering Isle. The weather at the Kuriles is wild. There isa gale with rain and snow, and the temperature is below freezing point. TBIPS FOE PASSENGERS. NEW BRITISH SCHEME. AIRSHIP LINERS PLANNED. Australian and N.Z. Cable' Association. (Reed 11.5 p.m..) LONDON, May 18. The Imperial Airways, Limited, has issued a.complete time-table 'for. round the world flights. It is proposed to cross the Atlantic in airship liners built by $Ee Zeppelin Company. /- - '*,"/' l '.'•*■■ Passengers for Australia will fly to Cairo in aeroplanes, via Paris and Constantinople, and join an '. airship at Cairo, • riving in Australia on the ninth day out :•,from; London.:'.:■:* '■;,,'. %■..''; ;>;;.;;■.

The airships will return via San Francisco and New York. The latter, city will be reached on the fifteenth day from London. ■ \ -